Improved appabatus foe defecating soeghum juice and othee liquids



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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, DAIEL B. NEAL, of MountGilead, in the county ofMorrow, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Defecator; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full and clear descriptionthreof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of this iuvention consists inthe combination of severalshallow trays or troughs, the bottoms of which are to be slightlyelevated at the discharge end while in use. These troughs may be placedin aframe, one above another, and arranged with their elevated endsalternately in opposite directions, or they may be placed continuously,one in advancc of another, with the elevated ends all in one direction,but in either case they willhe arranged so that fluid fed into one willfind its exit, at the elevated end of each tray, into the one next 'inadvance ofit. The fluid will enter the deep end of each tray or trough,when'it will stand at the height of three or four inehes, and then as itflows toward the other end the sediment will settle and adhere to theinclincd bottom, which will oppose considcrable frictional resistance toits passage, and the clear liquid will flow ofi' at the elevat'ed end,and be conducted into a suitable receiver. When the trays are to beemptied and cleansed it will be necessary to lower the high end veryslowly and easily, in order to save the fluid that may be in the deepend of the tray, without disturbing the sedimentary deposit. This isaccomplished by a series of. windlasses and eords or ropes as will behereinafter explained.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and' use my improveddefecator, I wi prooeed to describ its Construction and operation. v

Figure 1 oi' the drawings is a perspective elevation of the apparatis.

Figure 2 is aseotional elevation of the same.

A isa general supporting frame, of vertical posts connected together bythe beams ai. On these teams there are a series of trays or shallowtroughs, B, one end of each of which is closed and the other open. Thesides 'of these trays are some three or four inches higher at the back'or closed end than at the open end; Of course this formation of sidesis not indispensable, but only presents the most economioalConstruction. C and C' are wndlasses, that have their bearings in thetops of theposts A; They are turned by means of the levers c, and areconnected with the open ends of the trays by means 'of'the cords or'opes c 0 When this apparatus is to be used, the' open ends of thetronghs are to be raised up by means of the windlasses, so that theywill be, say three or four inohes higher than the closed end, which isto be allowed to remain on the beam a. The liquid that is to be purifiedis then to befed in a slow, continuous stream, into the deep' or closedend of the topmost tray, and it will then flow over the inclined bottomtoward the open end, from which it will be diseharged into the deep endof the next lower tray, and so on through the whole series. The numberof these trays to be used in a single apparatus is entirely indefinite,and will be tlependent entirely upon the character -of the fluid to be'cleansed, and other contingent circumstances. From four to six will,however, be the proper number to connect together usually. As the fluidflows over the inclined bottoms of the trays, the sedimentary depositswill, by gravitation and frietion combined, he compelled to adhe'ethereto, and the clcaner and lighter liquid will flow smoothly oil' atthe top of each tray. There should be some kind of conductors, b, tolead the fluid from cne tray into the next so that the fluid may not beagitated, and the sediment thereby stirred up. These con ductors may besimply pieces of musliu, or they may be more elaborately constructed.There may or there may not be tran'svorse peces or ribs b' placed in thebottoms of the trays 01' troughs to impede the progress of the heavyparticles and retain them in the trays. When the deposit in the trays isto be, removed the windlasses are to be turned down very slowly andgradually so as to draw oli the clear liquid from the deep ends of the'trays, and allow none but the heavy particles to remain, and these maythen be scraped out and thrown away. The rcservoir D, from which thefluid is to be fed into the trays, should have a vertical partition, d,which will divide the said reservoir into two chambers, zl and dOrifices in the bottom part of the partit-lon will allow fluid to passfrom one ehamber into the other. Both of these chambers should be filledwith some filtering material, such as straw, which may be weighted downwith Stones. The fresh liquid will then be i'ed into the chamberdfromwhich it will pass downward through the filtering material, underthe partition d, and then up through the filtering material in d, fromnear the top of which chamber it will find an exit through a strainer at(2 and threugh'the conductor ol enter the topmost tray or trough B.;After passingthrough the trays the clear fluid con be discharged into:L suitable reservoir, E, at the bottom. Although this defecato' may beused to clear any fluid of sedimenta'y deposit, it is especiallyvaiuable-in removing the glutinous, mueilaginous matter-from sorghumjuice previous to the boiling of that liquid, and when the liquid is sofreed from such foreign matter, it may be redlced to the consistency ofsuger without danger of burning.

Having described my improved defecator, what I eiaiin, is-- 1. A seriesof trays or shuliow troughs B, arranged with one end of each tray ortrough deeper than the other, and otherwise constructed so that fluidfedinto the deeper endet' the topmost t'ough wiii find :n exit at theshaliow end, and so on through the' whole series.

2. I claim the Construction and eombination of the tmys B, and thewindiesses C c and C'c', substmtialiy as described.

3. I claim the reservoir D; when constructed as herein described, andcombined with the treys B.

' DANIEL B. NEAL.

Witnesses:

GEO. P. HERTHEL, Jr., M. RANDOLPH.

